So Much For That lacks all the force of So Much for Kevin. My copy has an article at the very end (by Shriver) that is a condensed version of the book, which I wish I had either read instead, or not read at all. An old friend of Shriver, Terri had mesothelioma, and clearly Shriver regrets having be...
I didn't earn the right to claim that this book is horrible. I did earn the right to say that the first third is, though. I can't go on.Except for Shep, the characters in this novel are loathsome, nasty people. Glynis, Shep's wife and cancer patient, is weaponized, revealing her disease to friends a...
What's amazing about Lionel Shriver is that she never shrinks from expressing the meanest things we think about our friends, family, and selves but at the same time can have such sympathetic, even lovable, characters.
blurb - A dramatisation of Lionel Shriver's unflinching new novel which portrays the economic and emotional fall-out of serious illness. Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to a remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But...
Loved it."Accompanied by a strumming guitar and uplifting flute cadenzas that in his boyhoodd typified alternative folk services in his father's church, these warnings were delivered with a lilting, lobotomized pleasantness -- the tone of voice in which one might read bedtime stories to small childr...
maybe if I had more time I would give this more effort, but it's just not catching.
Lionel Shriver has written a very grown-up story that deals with serious subjects in a serious way. Shepherd Knacker has been saving all his life for what he calls the “Afterlife,” retirement to some sort of desert isle, away from the world in which he must work in order to finance his dream. But hi...
Oh, how I wanted to like this book. How I wanted to like Lionel Shriver! Alas, Lionel Shriver is not a very likeable writer."So Much For That" is about Shep who has been saving all his life so he can retire early to run away to a place where people bask in the sun and live on a dollar per day and he...
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